I just don’t believe it. I have so many problems with xmodmap and setxkbmap, 100% incompatible with each others , evdev driver, different keyboards, real machines, virtual machines, “nomachines” Macs and Pcs, wrote dozens of Xmodmap, still don’t understand how keycodes suddenly change ( = go back to nothing) in the middle of the Xsession (in all distros) … that I finally decided to go to the source of all problems (well, almost) and try to write hal keyboard policies … then googled a little bit, landed on a Ubuntu wiki page and found that:
Starting with Ubuntu 10.04, HAL has been removed and is no longer involved with device configuration.
Where possible, configuration is done automatically in the kernel device driver.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input
I assume that other distros are pretty much going to follow the same path. Does anybody know what are the plans for openSUSE ?
On 03/05/2010 10:26 PM, please try again wrote:
>
> I just don’t believe it. I have so many problems with xmodmap and
> setxkbmap, 100% incompatible with each others , evdev driver, different
> keyboards, real machines, virtual machines, “nomachines” Macs and Pcs,
> wrote dozens of Xmodmap, still don’t understand how keycodes suddenly
> change ( = go back to nothing) in the middle of the Xsession (in all
> distros) … that I finally decided to go to the source of all problems
> (well, almost) and try to write hal keyboard policies … then googled a
> little bit, landed on a Ubuntu wiki page and found that:
>
> STARTING WITH UBUNTU 10.04, HAL HAS BEEN REMOVED AND
> IS NO LONGER INVOLVED WITH DEVICE CONFIGURATION.
> WHERE POSSIBLE, CONFIGURATION IS DONE AUTOMATICALLY IN THE KERNEL
> DEVICE DRIVER.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input
>
> I assume that other distros are pretty much going to follow the same
> path. Does anybody know what are the plans for openSUSE ?
Hal will be removed. It is obsolete and no longer being developed.